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October 2024

ARBORIST WALK: NOT FOR TREE HUGGERS ONLY!
10/29/2024

Bill Wishner: Visual Hunter
10/29/2024

Can a Village Group Fix Our Healthcare System?
10/29/2024

Community Board Directors Strengthen Village Board
10/29/2024

Connecting with Village Connections: The A, B, C, & D’s of Medicare @ 65+
10/29/2024

Grief is a Journey: Two Paths Taken
10/29/2024

Message from the President
10/29/2024

Promoting Informed & Involved Voters
10/29/2024

What Will Be Your Legacy?
10/29/2024

1619, Approaching the Election...
10/27/2024

Beyond and Within the Village - A Star is Born
10/17/2024

Happiness by Priscilla Leonard
10/11/2024

Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden
10/11/2024

Unpainted Door by Louise Gluck
10/11/2024

In the Evening by Billy Collins
10/10/2024

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
10/10/2024

Betty Kilby, A Family History
10/01/2024

Betty Kilby, A Family History
10/01/2024

Betty Kilby, A Family History
10/01/2024

September 2024

August 2024

1619 Wide Ranging Interests
08/19/2024

1619 Wide Ranging Interests
08/19/2024

First Anniversary
08/19/2024

Alexandra Leaving by Leonard Cohen
08/16/2024

Muse des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden
08/16/2024

The God Abandons Antony by Constantinos P. Cavafy
08/16/2024

Ch – Ch – Ch –Changes
08/15/2024

Cultural Activities Team offers an ‘embarrassment of riches’
08/15/2024

Engaging in Pasadena Village
08/15/2024

Future Housing Options
08/15/2024

Message from the President
08/15/2024

There Are Authors Among Us
08/15/2024

Villagers Welcome New Members at the Tournament Park Picnic
08/15/2024

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
08/14/2024

A narrow Fellow in the Grass by Emily Dickinson
08/13/2024

Haikus
08/13/2024

One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
08/13/2024

Poem 20 by Pablo Neruda
08/13/2024

Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
08/13/2024

Trees by Joyce Kilmer
08/13/2024

July 2024

June 2024

May 2024

Emergency Preparedness: Are You Ready?
05/28/2024

Farewell from the 2023/24 Social Work Interns
05/28/2024

Gina on the Horizon
05/28/2024

Mark Your Calendars for the Healthy Aging Research California Virtual Summit
05/28/2024

Meet Our New Development Associate
05/28/2024

Putting the Strategic Plan into Practice
05/28/2024

Washington Park: Pasadena’s Rediscovered Gem
05/28/2024

Introducing Civil Rights Discussions
05/22/2024

Rumor of Humor #2416
05/14/2024

Rumor of Humor #2417
05/14/2024

Rumor of Humor #2417
05/14/2024

Rumor of Humor #2418
05/14/2024

Springtime Visitors
05/07/2024

Freezing for a Good Cause – Credit, That Is
05/02/2024

No Discussion Meeting on May 3rd
05/02/2024

An Apparently Normal Person Author Presentation and Book-signing
05/01/2024

Flintridge Center: Pasadena Village’s Neighbor That Changes Lives
05/01/2024

Pasadena Celebrates Older Americans Month 2024
05/01/2024

The 2024 Pasadena Village Volunteer Appreciation Lunch
05/01/2024

Woman of the Year: Katy Townsend
05/01/2024

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Black Life in Pasadena

By Blog Master
Posted: 11/13/2021
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In our upcoming meeting on November 19th, we will be viewing a presentation by Adrian Panton from the Pasadena History Museum about the history of black citizens of Pasadena from the formation of the city. His presentation has been given before to great acclaim and we are fortunate that Adrian is willing share his time with us for this presentation.

The NY Times has recently published an article about the 1619 Project they initiated in 2019. A copy of the article, "The 1619 Project and the Long Battle Over U.S. History", is available for anyone who does not have a subscription to the NY Times.

Publication of their issue on this topic of the history of race and slavery in this country has started a long chain of events. Our current news environment is full today of reverberations of all sorts related to the August 2019 issue, some directly related and others associated because of other events regarding race relations in the country.

Our last discussion meeting which focused on Critical Race Theory is only one of those reverberations. As became clear in our discussion, most of what we hear in the news about Critical Race Theory  is a complete fabrication of work that has been going on in academia for some years. As this article explains, the concept of Critical Race Theory is being dealt with as a subject in historiography, the study of how history is created. 

We seem to be going through a very turbulent period where almost half of our country,does not want to know the truth about our past. This is a serious problem for those of us who believe that knowing the truth about our past can help us move toward a better future. Our past includes the making of statements of principles that have inspired people around the world over all the years our nation has existed. As a nation, we have not always lived up to those principles but the principles were, and remain, important. They continue to inspire many people to try to live up to them, and trying to live up to them can make us a better country. We should not lose sight of that even though it upsets many of our citizens to acknowledge that we have not lived up to the principles that were laid out in the formation of our nation.

Information from this article and our awareness of the current discussions in the news media can inform our viewing of Friday's presentation abut the history of Pasadena.

I hope we can follow up on what we have learned from previous discussions and enjoy the viewing of Pasadena's history with Adrian Panton along with reviewing the NY Times article and the impact that their publication has had. The meeting will be on November 19th at 12pm Pacific on our usual link. Email us if you would like to be included on our mailing list to receive updates and the link to get into the meeting.
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